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| Posted: Mon Apr 19th, 2010 10:04 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder 
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snooze wrote:So many photos stored on people's computers are too large and its a pain having to go through the step of resizing before uploading. Hi snooze, You don't have to resize before uploading, the gallery resizes them to 800 wide (or whatever you set), provided they don't exceed the maximum upload size. You can change that setting too. The problem is that the resizing function requires large amounts of memory, and to resize very large images requires massive amounts of memory. Both Robert and I had to ask Jim for permission to increase memory allocation for our boards, to allow larger size gallery uploads:
Normally that would mean an extra charge on the hosting cost. regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 19th, 2010 10:53 am |
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Jim I work here 
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Put that at the bottom of your lib.php file before the closing tag or one of us can do it for you. About 320 is all you need for the biggest of photos. A lot of hosts make it impossible to use ini_set. If only about 10-20 people do it it isn't a problem for the server. If you change it you will be like the 5th.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 19th, 2010 12:11 pm |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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Jim wrote: Put that at the bottom of your lib.php file before the closing tag or one of us can do it for you. About 320 is all you need for the biggest of photos. H snooze, I have it currently set at 240M, and my gallery will happily resize originals at 4800 x 3600 pixels, and larger. The limit is the total number of pixels (not the compressed file size in MB), so it's difficult to know the exact limit without a lot of trial and error. For example it will be equally happy at 9600 x 1800. That's the same number of pixels (4800 x 3600 = 17,280,000 pixels, 17 megapixels). A 32-bit bitmap requires 4 bytes per pixel, so simply to lay out this one image for resizing input requires 69,120,000 bytes of memory for the image data, plus the header overhead. A lot of hosts make it impossible to use ini_set. If only about 10-20 people do it it isn't a problem for the server. If you change it you will be like the 5th. Another reason to use Data 1 Systems. As if we needed one.  regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20th, 2010 12:03 am |
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TVDinner Go UCONN! 
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snooze wrote: I love the Gallery, it's awesome. snooze - we started a thread on our forum with a variety of free sites on the net that resize images for people easily. I would suggest you do the same thing. Yes the gallery does resize images, but I like uploading images already resized if possible. Some that were suggested were - http://photobucket.com/ http://www.picresize.com/ http://www.shrinkpictures.com/ http://www.resizeyourimage.com/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Visualizer-Photo-Resize.shtml We suggested a bunch of options and people keep suggesting more free sites for people to use.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21st, 2010 02:47 pm |
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bartmanaz License Holder 
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Thanx everyone for your comments and advice. We've added it to our forum and I'm pleased with the results. We have excellent photographers on our forum and they've added some really cool pics of wildlife, local scenery and more. Thanx David for the install and to all of you for your comments.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 01:47 pm |
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snooze License Holder
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Jim wrote:Put that at the bottom of your lib.php file before the closing tag or one of us can do it for you. About 320 is all you need for the biggest of photos. Seeing as you're already poking around in there, if you can change it for me, that would be awesome, thanks. 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 02:09 pm |
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Jim I work here
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Done
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 02:39 pm |
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snooze License Holder
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Uh, thanks... but my whole board went down. (White screen of death). 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 03:55 pm |
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tanygaer TOIDI 
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I have removed the line and the board is back, it does not seem to like that...
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 03:58 pm |
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snooze License Holder
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Fussy thing! (Wonder why not?) Thanks so much.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27th, 2010 04:42 pm |
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Jim I work here
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There must be another ini_set somewhere else in the code. Hard to tell at this point.
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| Posted: Wed May 5th, 2010 06:07 am |
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bhyder License holder 
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Devans wrote: Since Davids latest update, allowing users the ability to create folders, it has been used alot more on our forum. I think it is a valuable add-on and would be great if it came with Ultra at purchase. (((Since Davids latest update, allowing users the ability to create folders,))) hmmmm i have the gallery installed but i cant say that iv seen any option to create folders Am i missing an update for the gallery ?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 11:16 pm |
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snooze License Holder
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The Gallery for me is a bit of a bust, sorry. If I have to reduce the size of the pics on my computer before uploading, I'm better off with Photobucket. My camera loads pics that are 2.5 mgs, like many people on my forum, and they're too big. Since the attempted and failed 'fix', I'm just getting blank white screens. Can I get some info as to how the files are stored? Can I move the photos currently in the Gallery elsewhere? If so, how? snz
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| Posted: Wed Jun 2nd, 2010 11:36 pm |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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snooze wrote: My camera loads pics that are 2.5 mgs, like many people on my forum, and they're too big. Hi snz, You can change the allowed file size in the Gallery Admin settings. I'm allowing up to 6MB on my gallery. What's important is to tell your members to upload only one such large image at a time, because the limit applies to the total upload file size when making multiple uploads. Much more problematic is the pixel size. I'm allowing up to 4800 x 3600 but it requires a massive amount of memory for the resizing functions on such large images. You need to change the memory allocation in the lib.php file, as explained by Jim. regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 12:04 am |
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snooze License Holder
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Thanks Martin, I did change it in the Admin panel and Dave also tried to change the memory allocation in the file and the whole board went down. And that was that.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 12:07 am |
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snooze License Holder
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PS: My pixel sizes are usually 3072 x 2048.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 12:58 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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snooze wrote: Thanks Martin, I did change it in the Admin panel and Dave also tried to change the memory allocation in the file and the whole board went down. And that was that. Hi Snooze, I'm sure Jim or David will fix it for you if you ask. Note that Jim wrote: About 320 is all you need for the biggest of photos. He meant of course 320M. If you set it to only 320 bytes, the board would surely go down! regards, Martin.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 01:47 am |
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snooze License Holder
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The max file size blank says 2600000. Jim got the board working again by deleting the recommended change (done correctly by David), but he won't try again because my board has a few modifications that aren't his. He'll only help with a 'stock' board. I assume he's pointing the finger at the modifications being the problem with the failed lib.php file change. Unfortunately our board is a big one, over 10,500 members and well established, we can't take away these features, which date back to the WowBB days when modifications were allowed. So we're at an impasse. With UltraBB not very active, its probably best to move to a larger, more flexible company anyway given our size. But between the small size of UltraBB (hardly anybody has conversion programs for it) and the large size of our forum (moving the files is a massive undertaking), it is making it very difficult. (Blowing a chunk of our budget trying to make this work didn't help). Which is why I'm asking about the photo gallery files in the first place. Aside from it not working for so many because of the size issue, if the pics are going to be even more difficult to move, best to let the members who do use it know and shut it down completely.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 05:03 am |
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tanygaer TOIDI
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The images in the photo gallery are all held in the directory gallery which is in the root. Inside the gallery directory is a directory for each contributor named from their user ID. There is a table in the DB which collates the image name to the user ID, and a separate table which contains any folders they may have elected to use. Hope this helps.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 08:14 am |
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martin_wynne Licence Holder
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snooze wrote: The max file size blank says 2600000. Hi snooze, So why not increase it to whatever you want? if the pics are going to be even more difficult to move, best to let the members who do use it know and shut it down completely. The pics are very easy to move, as David explained. Here for example is the link to a picture in my gallery, belonging to user #46 and his original upload image file: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery/46/original/46_070731_180000003.jpg To move that you simply ftp the file. To move all his original image files, simply ftp this folder: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery/46/original/ To move all his picture files, original and resized, simply ftp this folder: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery/46/ (Change to your own domain of course. My folders are index protected in cPanel.) regards, Martin.
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